About

BMO 1st Art! celebrates the creativity of art school
students from over 100 post-secondary institutions across Canada. Every year BMO
Financial Group invites the deans and instructors of undergraduate-level
certificate, diploma, or degree programmes in studio art to select from their
graduating classes three students whose ability and imagination place them 1st among their peers.

Each promising student is asked to complete submission materials and send
digital images of a recent work to BMO Financial Group’s Art Collection Unit by
May 15, 2019. Our distinguished selection committee will review the
submissions in July and choose one winner from every province and territory to
be 1st in their region. A national winner will also
be chosen.

The national winner is awarded $15,000 and each regional winner receives $7,500.
All winning entries for 2018 will be on display at the BMO 1st Art! exhibition, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery,
University of Toronto, November 15 to December 8, 2018. Artworks are
returned to the artists after the exhibition.

2019 Selection Committee

Marie-Eve Beaupré, Curator, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

cheyanne turions, Curator, SFU Galleries

Sarah Robayo Sheridan, Curator, Art Museum at the University of Toronto